In the course of robbing Alexander Helmer, a man in his seventies, the then 17-year-old defendant-appellant Carlos Ortiz confessed that he held the old man's arms while his companion stabbed Helmer to his death. Carlos' brother, Alfred, and a third individual, Valencia, of the four men implicated in the murder, also confessed to their complicity in the crime. Upon a second trial, the Ortiz brothers were convicted of felony murder and each was...
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